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[caption id="attachment_17423" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Lodha Panel sets deadline for BCCI. Image Source: Xtra Time[/caption] Internet Desk: In a fresh trouble, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) received intimation from the Supreme Court appointed Lodha Panel to submit the reports by accounting firm Deloitte on four state units before deciding on disbursal of funds for their players' payments, allowances and other expenditures. The deadline set for BCCI to submit the reports is November 08.

 The four states that are under scanner are Odisha, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir and Hyderabad.

With reference to the letter sent by BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke on October 28, panel secretary Gopal Shankarnarayan stated: "With regard to the Associations of Orissa, Hyderabad Jammu & Kashmir and Assam mentioned by you, you are directed to furnish the Report obtained by the BCCI from M/s. Deloitte on State Associations, as well as any undertakings submitted by the State Associations pursuant thereto.

"This shall be submitted within 5 days from today. It may be noted that the question of release of funds to these Associations is also governed by Para 20(i) of the Supreme Court's order."

The BCCI has recently asked the five staging associations - Saurashtra, Andhra, Punjab, Mumbai and Tamil Nadu - if they can host the Test matches matches without facing financial crunch.

According to sources some of the associations like Goa, Hyderabad, Kerala, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir and Orissa will immediately come under the SC's scanner if the report is made public soon. In Goa the association had bought 18 cars for its managing committee members. The cars are exclusively used by the committee members. The cost of petrol and other maintenance is billed by the members and this practice is being followed for months. Another association under scnner is believed to have presented the managing committee members gold coins and their wives were presented gold jewellery. Kerala cricket association is said to have built a land bank without any proper due diligence and has entered into contacts with private individuals without any tenders being put out. Also, they have bought mangrove land worth 30 plus crores, which under environmental rules can't be used for cricketing purposes. The recent order by the Lodha Committee will leave the BCCI on a sticky wicket.